We are announcing the release of our state-of-the-art off-policy model-free reinforcement learning algorithm, soft actor-critic (SAC). This algorithm has been developed jointly at UC Berkeley and Google Brain, and we have been using it internally for our robotics experiment.
Robotics investments in November 2018 totaled at least $639.3 million with a total of 20 verified investments, including $220 million from Auris Health.
Created by Hong Kong-based company Robugtix, this oddball Z6 spider robot could one day be used for search and rescue missions or exploration on the surface of other planets. For now, though, you’ll have to settle for watching it perform in a 1980s-style aerobics music video.
A cafe with an all-robot staff controlled by paralyzed people has opened in Tokyo. The cafe, called Dawn ver.β, held its ribbon cutting ceremony on Nov. 26. Ten people with conditions like ALS and other spinal cord injuries are currently employed at Dawn, according to Sankei. From home, they opera...
20 additional predictions for what will happen in 2019 with artificial intelligence (AI), machine leaning (ML), and deep learning.
Support robots are already a factor in Japan, where a quarter of the population is already greying. Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry expects the robotic service industry to grow to nearly $4 billion annually by 2035—25 times its current level.
A 1-month-old named Joy Nowai became the first person to ever get inoculated by vaccines delivered via drone yesterday. The baby lives on the island-nation of Vanuatu, where 1 in 5 children aren’t fully immunized and delivering vaccines can be difficult due to the terrain. Vanuatu’s Ministry of Heal...
In a world first, an undersea robot developed by Australia’s Queensland University of Technology has delivered microscopic coral larvae to the Great Barrier Reef to help with its respawning. Meet Larvalbot: the robot 'crop duster' which dispenses coral babies on troubled reefs.
UK AI chip startup Graphcore has announced a $200 million Series D round today that’s jointly led by an existing investor, European VC Atomico, along with new investor Sofina, an investment holding firm. Graphcore says the Series D values the company at $1.7BN. We’ve confirmed the valua…
It's difficult to create nanoscale 3D objects. The techniques either tend to be slow (such as stacking layers of 2D etchings) or are limited to specifi
Machine learning algorithms are getting scary-good at creating fake images that look real.
Richard Day Shared his Chess robot on Youtube! Chess robot using RPi and Lynxmotion robot arm. My vision code determines the player’s move. Uses Stockfish chess engine – which can beat …
A delivery robot caught fire on a California college campus, seemingly as the result of a human replacing its battery with a defective one.
San Francisco partially banned delivery robots because they obstructed pedestrians, so Postmates built one with eyes, turn signals and a mandate to yield. Serve is Postmates’ new cooler-meet-autonomous-stroller that it hopes can cut costs and speed up deliveries. The semi-autonomous rover use…
Whether hiring robotics talent for the first time or adding to an existing team in 2019, hiring personnel must take a strategic approach to the process by figuring out what traits, training, experience or capabilities the top candidates should have.
NASA's InSight robot has been recording the ghostly sounds of Mars since it first charged up its solar panels. Now, you can listen to some of them.
A foldable drone can retract its propeller arms in flight and make itself small to fit through narrow spaces, which is useful for search and rescue.
Remembering where we parked our cars in a crowded parking lot can be a real pain. But what if our cars came to find us, rather than the other way around? A new automated robot parking valet system aims to help. Retrieving your car is as simple as loading up a smartphone app.
A robot that can inch up icy surfaces may help scientists reach new heights in some of Earth’s most dangerous and remote landscapes.
You might not see most objects in near-total darkness, but AI can. MIT scientists have developed a technique that uses a deep neural network to spot object
Robot from Invert Robotics can inspect the inside of dairy tanks, aircraft fuselages, and other cramped spaces, relieving the burden on human workers.
While the likes of Uber, Airbus and Porsche tinker away on their respective passenger and transportation drones, a lesser-known startup is taking a
Robotiq, a Quebec City, Canada-based maker of plug-and-play cameras, grippers, force sensors and software for collaborative robots, raised $23.1 million.
